"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Yea, it's true. We'd have another "Lavellan just lost her whole clan, why is nobody reacting to this!?" moment.

When you dream are you even aware you went to bed? Did you never have a dream when you woke up and was convinced it was part of reality and don't even remember going to sleep, at least for a solid moment? Because I do, sometimes.

I'm fairly sure that's what they wanted to convey - confusion and being caught by surprise that we were actually dreaming, as much as Solas was surprised that we've found him. But I can agree that the execution of it ain't exactly successful, considering how many people have missed it; it'd probably be better if we got a short cutscene when we approach Solas in the rotunda and something in the environment already felt off. But I wouldn't be surprised if it hadn't been done because resources and all.

Either way, it is what it is. We come to Solas, not he to us.

Consequences to actions, a staple of storytelling. It would be swell if Bioware would include some ...

Well I always thought DA was trying to hit that dark fantasy mark, especially with Origins. It just seems that the focus has shifted more and more towards high fantasy instead. But whatever. I just think it's weird that the next story is speculated to be in Tevinter, a place which was described of having dark themes such as slavery and the like. But brothels won't exist? Doesn't matter to me really (DA will be DOA as I see it). People get offended much more easier these days, especially when viewing graphic depictions of sex or violence. BW just wants everyone to enjoy their games. I don't see any other reasons they'd take out brothels in a place that is riddled with slavery, other than trying not to offend players. The older 2 games in the series had brothels, why not Inquisition or this next upcoming DA?

It certainly would be swell if they could include all, but designing a huge RPG with a word budget and a budget has its limits. It's not a book they're writing where they can use as many words as they like, or they do so in an entirely linear fashion. 

Cutting implications of rape because, among other things, they wouldn't be able to implement addressing it in a game with limits in terms of how much content they can put into it is an entirely valid reason to do so, without insinuating that they were 'afraid to do something' or 'were afraid to offend someone'.

What I don't get is why you think people are opposed to a brothel? Most people I've seen here aren't - at best they don't think it's really that necessary. Precisely because "darkness" and "adult themes" can be expressed in different ways, like... stabbing kid to death, or letting a man be consumed by a demon and so on.

That's funny, I just remembered they also removed the original desire demons from DA. People who say this has nothing to do with PC culture is lying to themselves.

I actually thought they were leaning more toward consoles....

There's a reason people are upset about Bioware being more console focused though xD Being more console focused is sound business but you sacrifice certain things ...

What are these different ways? Other than the ways they've expressed in DA:O. I'm trying to understand this sanitized yet somehow dark view of fantasy. 

We weren't there when they were creating DAI, but from what I've read, it wasn't smooth sailing. We know that many of their creative decisions were dictated by things like having to create RPG tools and assets from scratch, designing for 5 consoles at once and so on, so I think that just shifting all of the blame for all/most creative decisions on Laidlaw is oversimplifying things. We already know that Gaider said that cutting exploration content would NOT mean more cutscenes, or longer main quest and so on. Making a game of this scope is way more complicated and requires a team effort. And from the picture that emerges of DAI's development, the game actually turned out better than it had a right to be - all thanks to its experienced team.
At this point this is bending over backwards to give this thing a negative spin. The writer has already explained it wasn't the fear of the rape per se, but that it wasn't intended to be a rape scene in the first place. So if there was fear, it was there only in a sense that they were afraid to do a sh*tty job at conveying the intent, or not creating a scenario which they wouldn't be able to properly address in the game.

Seriously, people really need to stop (selectively) treating peer reviews or revisions like it's an interference, or that if creator modifies the work according to feedback it means that he/she chickens out. As professional artist who has her works reviewed on professional and personal level I can only shake my head at this. It's ultimately my decision to ask and listen to feedback and any revision I choose to implement based on feedback has little to do with 'lacking the courage', especially if it turns out that I borked something, but due to limited perspective, art-block, lack of time or just sheer creative fatigue I just don't see it until someone points this out to me (virtually every creator will tell you that this happens to them fairly frequently, I guarantee it to you).
Given all that, silly accusations like the one above, merely comes across as thinly veiled passive aggressiveness.